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Publisher's Summary

The explosive new thriller from New York Times best-selling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook.

Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future" - an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man. Noah suspects Dr. William Mason, an egotistical world-class surgeon, of an error during the operation and of tampering with the patient's record afterward. But Mason is quick to blame anesthesiologist, Dr. Ava London.

When more anesthesia-related deaths start to occur, Noah is forced to question all of the residents on his staff, including Ava, and he quickly realizes there's more to her than what he sees. A social-media junkie, Ava has created multiple alternate personas for herself on the Internet. With his own job and credibility now in jeopardy, Noah must decide which doctor is at fault and who he can believe - before any more lives are lost.

Story

Social engineering at its best

I work as an RN, CNOR, in short operating room nurse. This book captures an accurate snapshot of life in the medical field. Things can go terribly wrong in a heartbeat and there is a whole cascade of incidents that lead up to it. You can give 110% and things still go wrong. (As health care workers we are always trying to fix that). But the real story is the social engineering that is going on in everyone's lives.It has taken away the human elements of connection and experience. The book acknowledges that the mind cage of &quot; cyber&quot; life is real. To me that thought is horrifying. Worth your time $ or credit. It does get you to think. Which is the purpose of good books.

A winner from Dr. Cook and George Guidall

Unlike most of Dr. Robin Cook's medical thrillers during the last 40 years Charlatan deals with medical education and medical ethics in the age of the Internet and social media. The plot is fascinating. George Guidall's narration always makes a novel even better.

I purchased Charlatan 5 days after it was published and after just listening to it I regret not listening to it sooner.

Something to Offend Everybody

I agree with other reviewers that "Charlatans" might not qualify as Robin Cook’s best effort to date … although, in general, his medical thrillers have been improving with each outing since his first 1977 effort, "Coma". With the exception of "Charlatans", Dr. Cook’s thrillers always address some important, urgent, frequently egregious issue relating to our dysfunctional medical care system. These issues generally boil down to human greed introducing corruption into the system: the insurance racket, big Pharma, hospital politics, and the like. However, in "Charlatans", Cook addresses the evils of … social media? … nutritional supplements? Yeah, I know.

Listeners who have had trouble relating to Cook’s previous novels might find "Charlatans" a bit more accessible than the others, because it indulges in less "medical-speak" than they do. None-the-less, I hesitate to recommend this novel to anyone who has not listened to any other samples of Dr. Cook’s oeuvre, because it just does not represent the captivating story-telling caliber that he normally offers us. On the other hand, veteran, silky-voiced, master narrator George Guidall delivers his usual skillful performance, given the material he has to work with here. Bottom line: Skip this one, unless — like me — you are a long-time Robin Cook fan.

Charlatans a little slow

Okay story; breathless narrator

Story was pretty good but I was let down at the end, after all the build-up. The main character was a bit of a wuss which frustrated me to no end. Finally, although the narrator has a wonderful, rich voice, and I could distinguish the characters, he seemed out of breath all the time, which became a fairly significant distraction.

The fix for US Health care unveiled

What made the experience of listening to Charlatans the most enjoyable?

Through the interaction between anesthesiology, surgery and Facebook, Robin Cook weaves a sneaky plot that ultimately forces the reader to examine beliefs about traditional medicine and high-tech medical training that can be uncomfortable. The fascinating characters shine light on the current medical education process vs the today's potential and needs for both better medical care and lower health care costs.

What other book might you compare Charlatans to and why?

Other Robin Cook books

Have you listened to any of George Guidall’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

If George Guidall performs it, I read it. He makes every story feel like you are reading it to yourself, emphasis where it belongs, inflections just right. He is my favorite audiobook performer and largely responsible for my being able to listen to several books a week. As a retiree whose eyes are not what they used to be, with my bluetooth wireless earphones, my smart phone in my pocket, and George downloaded, I can listen to books while cooking, weeding, potting, cleaning, napping, walking the dog. If the phone rings he just politely stops talking, I say hello, have my conversation, and he resumes when my caller hangs up. This bookworm is happy.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Social Medicine

Any additional comments?

Love Robin Cook and Boston. Always listening for how he injects Louisburg Square.

Great book, but my first audio narrator FAIL!

The story is compelling. But this narrator has a halting reading style that made it very hard to listen to at times. Only my curiosity about the plot and interest in the characters kept me listening, otherwise I would have abandoned the book. My first Audible miss.

Another timely medical ethical dilemma from Cook

This book had the typical elements of Robin Cook novels-a resident investigating suspicious happenings and getting in trouble, romance, detailed and believable medical details, and ethical dilemmas in medicine today. The story started with a death involving a character I thought was the heroine and our hero the resident. I came to dislike the heroine so I was having some problem getting involved in the story. I thought it was dragging a bit. I should have trusted Robin Cook to speed things up and tie everything together. I don't want to give any spoilers but the charlatan was not who I thought it was. I enjoyed the book but I didn't think it was good as the older Robin Cook novels I loved so much. I listened to the Audible version of the book and I was not really crazy about the narrator. His accent was not great and he was a little choppy. Maybe I would have liked the book more had I read it instead.

Terrible narration

I love Robin Cook and it is for that reason only that I listened to this entire book. the narrator spoke in brief bursts of speech as of he were running out of air with frequent pauses and in inappropriate places.